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This book explores the many struggles by various individuals and groups to fix Marie Antoinette's identity and links these struggles to larger destabilizations in social, political and gender systems in pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary France. Looking at how Marie Antoinette was represented in politics, art, literature and journalism, it reveals how crucial political and cultural contests were enacted 'on the body of the Queen.'
This book explores the many struggles by various individuals and groups to fix Marie Antoinette's identity and links these struggles to larger destabilizations in social, political and gender systems in pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary France. Looking at how Marie was represented in politics, art, literature and journalism, it reveals how crucial political and cultural contests were enacted 'on the body of the queen.'
"From Deficit to Deluge" takes stock of shifts in scholarly
investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last
decade, scholars have moved beyond "revisionist" historians of the
1970s, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism,
to explore related conflicts in the realms of finance, social
relations, religion, diplomacy, the Enlightenment, and colonial
policy. In this book, seven established authorities explore some of
these critical intersections, and together they make clear the role
that unresolved tensions in these realms played in the essentially
political narrative told by post-Marxian revisionist
historiography.
While each chapter of "From Deficit to Deluge" focuses upon one
site of contention--fiscal, social, religious, diplomatic,
ideological, and colonial--they all help to explain how
long-standing structural problems of the Old Regime caused a fairly
"normal" fiscal crisis to metastasize into a revolution. As the
editors show in their introduction and conclusion, the growing
democratization of politics sparked by the monarchy's clumsy
efforts to solve the fiscal crisis put these wide-ranging problems
at the epicenter of political debate, thereby sapping the
foundations of royal authority and the social hierarchy.
"From Deficit to Deluge" takes stock of shifts in scholarly
investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last
decade, scholars have moved beyond "revisionist" historians of the
1970s, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism,
to explore related conflicts in the realms of finance, social
relations, religion, diplomacy, the Enlightenment, and colonial
policy. In this book, seven established authorities explore some of
these critical intersections, and together they make clear the role
that unresolved tensions in these realms played in the essentially
political narrative told by post-Marxian revisionist
historiography.
While each chapter of "From Deficit to Deluge" focuses upon one
site of contention--fiscal, social, religious, diplomatic,
ideological, and colonial--they all help to explain how
long-standing structural problems of the Old Regime caused a fairly
"normal" fiscal crisis to metastasize into a revolution. As the
editors show in their introduction and conclusion, the growing
democratization of politics sparked by the monarchy's clumsy
efforts to solve the fiscal crisis put these wide-ranging problems
at the epicenter of political debate, thereby sapping the
foundations of royal authority and the social hierarchy.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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